[Server-devel] XSCE 0.2 - Network problems running xs-setup

[Rodolfo D. Arce S.]

It's installed

hostname-3.10-1.fc17.i686

2013/3/22 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>:
> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 11:05 -0300, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote:
>> I downloaded the RPM, installed using yum and didn' t ask for any dependencies.
>>
>> ran xs-setup and it failed, it did restarted the Network and waited
>> for a bit, but later it just failed, didn' t try to download anything
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/vdgfuHtY
>>
>
> Think we have an undeclared dependency on the rpm package 'hostname',
> which may not be installed, can you check for that rpm package with
> 'rpm -q hostname' please.
>
> Jerry
>
>>
>> 2013/3/22 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>:
>> > On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 10:24 -0300, Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote:
>> >> > That time to restart NM seems excessive, but we need to cover that
>> >> > situation. What would you time is a safe amount of time to wait before
>> >> > bailing out of the install? I'm thinking 2 minutes.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> It takes some time because the conection is wi-fi and it takes a long
>> >> time to "negotiate" the conection, the is restored a couple seconds
>> >> before the scripts exists. The ideal would be to check if connection
>> >> is up and then continue, with a simple ping to the previously found
>> >> gateway should work and timeout after 2 minutes or so. DHCP servers on
>> >> most routers are fast enough for that window of time with cable
>> >> connections, but wireless could take a while. 2 minutes is more than
>> >> enough.
>> >>
>> >> > I have some revisions related to that in the testing repo, could you
>> >> > start the next install with the testing repo enabled:
>> >>
>> >> I have to enable testing and upgrade the xs-cofig package? or is there
>> >> a specific package that needs to be downloaded?
>> >>
>> >
>> > We haven't updated the stable repo yet, the latest testing rpm is at:
>> >
>> > http://build.activitycentral.com/xs-repo/RPMS/noarch/?C=M;O=D
>> >
>> > You can then install the latest by hand with rpm if you wish. You will
>> > still need to have the repo file present to be able to install other
>> > packages.
>> >
>> > Jerry
>> >
>> >
>> >
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